Ty Cobb Quotes

In big clubs, you always have competitions for places.

I've always been a guy who comes in not being guaranteed a spot and always fighting for a spot. Any time you're in a camp, and you're not a big money guy, you're always going to be competing for a job.

If you are in the team, there is always going to be someone biting away at your heels trying to get in.

I have to be scoring goals and playing well to get in the team because, if not, others who are in better form will play.

All you have to do is play better than the other guy and things go well. If you don't play better than the other players then somebody takes your place. Now a lot of guys, in this day and time with the transient nature of the sport, as soon as the competition gets too good, they want out.

There are people who believe once somebody gets you a job in show business you are set and the truth is you have to fight for every job. People opened the doors for me for sure and hopefully I've helped open the door for some people but when you're there it's on you and you better be ready for it.

So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked.

Even after I played ten years of ball, I still felt like I had to play well or somebody might take my place. They had plenty of players in the minor leagues who were good enough to come up and take your job, and I think that kept us going all of the time. I hustled and put that extra effort in all of the time.

It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

Soccer is the most difficult business that we're in, because one day you're on top, and the next day you're very low.

Just because you get a show and it gets on the air doesn't mean jack. It certainly means that you'll be considered for stuff, but you've got to fight and claw to get every job.

There's always someone out there training for your spot. For my scholarship at the University of Florida, for my job with the Denver Broncos, for my position with the New York Jets. And that's the reason to get up earlier or stay up later.

One thing I know in baseball is you should never be comfortable where you are. It doesn't matter who you are. It's a business. If I got traded tomorrow, no hard feelings; it's a business.

It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.

The best jobs will go to the best educated people.

It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.

I'm competing against men who are doing five quads between the short program and the long program, and I'm at three between the two programs. Who would ever imagine that three wasn't enough for some people?

Mess up and draft somebody at my position, because you are going to sit around and watch him sit the bench. That's always been my mentality. I see it as a challenge.

A takeover or a player doing something wrong can take the focus away from what the most important thing is, which is to play football.

Like each and every year I got to think that way, anyway. I got to think about the next person trying to come in and take my job, so I got to continue to... work hard and prove myself.

That's the nature of the business. If you're not doing the job good enough then they're looking to replace you.

It's always good to have more promotions, give more fighters work.

I never thought I'd be playing 60 games a season for City, I knew I would be playing half of that if I was lucky. I knew at a club with that much power and resources there would always be a flood of players into the team.

When I came up to the main roster, it was such a different transition in seeing people pass you before your eyes. It just takes a toll on your heart because you're like 'what am I doing wrong? What can I do better? How can I be where they are?'